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Living single

Top 5 Pros to Living Single

1. Being alone.
2. Playing the same album, loudly, 10 times in a row so I can learn the lyrics and still sing the wrong thing. This is usually done whilst cooking (see 3) or getting ready in the morning (see 5).
3. Eating breakfast food for dinner, having snacks as meals and cooking the same thing 4 nights in a row. Oh, and buying only the food I want and like.
4. Going to sleep ridiculously early or ridiculously late. Also waking up ridiculously early or ridiculously late. Oh yeah, and the bed? It's all mine. I'm going to lay every which way and use every inch of it.
5. Changing clothes 5 times before deciding on the first thing I put on and not having to hear about how weird that is. This is a prime example of what is known as "Scary Single Behavior: Stuff You'd Never Do In Front Of Your Mate."

Top 5 Cons to Living Alone

1. Being alone.
2. I swear I just heard a gun shot down the street. What is that weird sound by the window? Sounds like someone is outside the door. Hmm...guess I have to check on all of it by my lonesome self (and possibly a baseball bat and a phone).
3. Leftovers. Just so happens I seem to always cook too much. Then I have 3 more nights worth of the same thing. Not always a bad thing, but I do notice food tends to go bad more often. I could buy less, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. I just gave up clothes shopping, food shopping is my substitute retail therapy.
4. When the toilet paper is out, it's up to me to remember it. Also, when the first of month comes around or those pesky utility bills make their way into the mailbox, it's all siphoned from my bank account.
5. Not quite sure how I will change the light in my ceiling when it inevitably burns out. I don't have a ladder, and I forgot to grow taller than 5'2".

Tips to Living Single
1. We saw this once on the news: A group of college students would go to Costco once a month and stock up on the essentials (toilet paper, dishwashing detergent, laundry detergent, soap, etc) and split the cost of the membership, the bill, and the goods. (Here's a similar story from the Seattle Times). If you've got friendly neighbors, it might be worth splitting a membership to Costco to save money.
2. In theory, cooking for one is not that difficult: modify a recipe and buy the right amount of ingredients. Unfortunately, it never turns out that easy. Remember the scene in Father of the Bride when Steve Martin gets arrested at a grocery store when he goes AWOL on hot dog bun packaging? Or when you decide that you want to make burritos one night, and you end up trying to devise other meals to use up the other nine tortillas (side note: we've found that quesadillas are a pretty good way to use up vegetables). Our best solution to this? Take some extra time when you're compiling your grocery list to plan meals and count the leftovers....you might find yourself having a shorter grocery list for the week.
3. Some single people tend to fall in one of two extreme categories: the ones that go out quite a bit, and the ones who hibernate for weeks or months at a time. And while there's nothing wrong with either option (we've definitely felt both ends of the spectrum), it's always good to take a step back when you're feeling worn out or cabin feverish. Spend an enjoyable night in your home alone if you feel the need to recharge; or plan a night out to reconnect with old friends that you may not have seen in awhile.
4. If you're like me, single living tends to get...messy. A coat thrown over there, clothes on the floor, and glasses tend to be all over the house. I won't lie: sometimes, it's gotten so bad to the point where I will invite a friend over so I have some motivation to clean my house before they show up. What works for me now is to set aside an hour every morning to do a general pick up, things like sorting through the junk mail, going through the recycling, and clearing my desk of paper scraps and coffee mugs.
5. Money may not buy you happiness, but it sure makes life easier. The other day, we were listening to Wanda Sykes talk about Americans and our understanding of money: "We spend $48 million in LOTTERY TICKETS. You can't trust us with our money! 'How're you planning for retirement?' "Powerball.'" It's important to set a few long-term financial goals--especially if you've credit card debts and/or school loans to pay back. Since it's all on you, take some time to make sense of 401(k), IRAs, credit scores, and all the money mumbo-jumbo. The more you know about it, the better decisions you can make. A good primer: Suze Orman's The Money book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke.

Tomado de Apartment Therapy
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/inspiration/living-single-share-your-pros-cons-and-tips-074004

Top Cat

Se quedó abierta la puerta de casa, y Canica se escapó. Mi hermana la rescató de la terraza, toda mojada y coja. Pero debió gozar toda la noche, porque durmió heavy el día entero, hasta que a la noche se quiso escapar otra vez.

Estaba con resaca?

El siguiente!

Fin de mes. Me fui al banco a pagar mis deudas, y fue bastante entretenida la experiencia.

Para comenzar, me sorprendí de la agilidad para atender. Es la primera vez en mi país en que veo tantos cajeros atendiendo....de 20 ventanillas, funcionaban unas 15 y eso que era la hora del almuerzo! En fin, dejé de preocuparme de que pasaría mucho tiempo en el banco.

Esta agencia tenía una de esas pantallitas que dan un timbre y muestran el número del cajero que está libre para atender, y en la fila había un caballero que se tomaba la molestia de repetir el número, por si acaso alguien lo pasó por alto. Pero de pronto me di cuenta que su favorito era el 10, porque lo decía con entusiasmo: "diezzzzzzzzz!!!"

De hecho, la chica que atendía la caja 10, era bastante rápida y en algún momento el hombre que repetía los números comenzó a irritarme. Por supuesto lo último que quería es que repitiera mi turno, como si yo no estuviera pendiente. Y se escuchaba el timbre y el hombre decía: "diezzzz!". Luego pasaban un par de números más y otra vez el hombre gritaba "dieeezzzz!".

Por suerte me tocó la caja ocho!

God forbid you ever have to walk a mile in their shoes...

I've seen a rich man beg
I've seen a good man sin
I've seen a tough man cry
I've seen a loser win
And a sad man grin
I heard an honest man lie
I've seen the good side of bad
And the down side of up
And everything between
I licked the silver spoon
Drank from the golden cup
Smoked the finest green
I stroked the daddy's dimes at least a couple of times
Before I broke their heart
You know where it ends
Yo, it usually depends on where you start

Everlast - What it´s like (1998)

It all started with the big BANG!

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang!

"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long,
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song.
A fraction of a second and the elements were made.
The bipeds stood up straight,
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and pangea
See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!

It's expanding ever outward but one day
It will cause the stars to go the other way,
Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it wont be hurt
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!

Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating out while here they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy
It all started with the big bang!

Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!

Barenaked Ladies

Where the hell is Matt?

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Fabuloso!! Wanna do the same!!!

But I know this crush ain´t going away

Do you ever think, when you’re all alone

All that we could be,

Where this thing could go

Am I crazy or falling in love

Is it really just another crush

Do you catch a breath, when I look at you

Are you holding back, like the way I do

Cause I’m trying, try to walk away

But I know this crush ain’t going away, going away

Primer single de David Archuleta - Crush.

Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield

I am unwritten, Can't read my mind. I'm undefined. I'm just beginning. The pen's in my hand. Ending unplanned.

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten, yeah

Oh, oh
I break tradition. Sometimes my tries are outside the lines, oh yeah yeah. We've been conditioned to not make mistakes But I can't live that way oh, oh

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
the rest still unwritten...

Supongo que nadie se va del todo...

Tengo escondida una esperanza humilde que es toda la fortuna de mi corazón!

Estoy desempolvando los pinceles, las pinturas, y todo lo que aguante que yo le ponga un dedo encima. Sentí que había perdido parte de mi alegría, ahora que caí en cuenta que he dejado de dibujar y pintar.

Volver con la frente marchita...

Tengo una rutina todas las mañanas antes de comenzar a trabajar, y leo un par de blogs. Hoy, el post de Ximena me motivó, me entusiasmó un poco más de lo que venía estando en estos días y quiero pintar, quiero dibujar! Quiero que todos vean mi arte y me conozcan así.

So...me verán volver!

Ring ring ring goes the telephone!

Blackberry. El accesorio del momento. Nada de gafas, trajes ni zapatos de diseñador, hoy la persona que quiera estar al día, debe tener un Blackberry. O algo parecido.

Hace unos diez años, cuando comenzó la fiebre del celular, y todos querían tener uno, me oponía a la idea. Rechazaba la idea de poder ser encontrada a cualquier hora, en el lugar en el que me encuentre. Cero privacidad! De hecho, la línea de celular que tengo hasta el día de hoy, me la dio mi padre porque "necesito localizarte para que pases comprando el pan".

Confieso que he disfrutado de mi celular. Porque hay épocas, cuando conoces gente de la que no quieres desaparecer (if you know what I mean!). Pero de la misma manera, si me llaman de un número que no tengo registrado, porque seguramente es alguien que no conozco, entonces no contesto. El celular no asegura mi disponibilidad.

Ahora, el Blackberry...en todos lados! Subiendo al ascensor, en los semáforos, en casa, en el supermercado, en las oficinas, en las veredas, en todos lados hay alguien con su blackberry recibiendo mensajes, emails, llamadas, y pings! Y la verdad es que molesta un poco, porque todos caminan desconcentrados de la vida real, viviendo a través del Blackberry.

En casa varias personas tienen Blackberry y todavia no aprendo a usarlo...a veces me vuelvo medio cavernícola, y mi compu no me parece tan obsoleta!

Tal vez me entienda con Blackberry cuando podamos ingresar a youtube....

Imagine all the people living life in peace

Estoy soñando hoy con la reunión de estos 3 mosqueteros.

Yo no conocería a Armando si no fuera por Andrea. Y muchas cosas divertidas me pasaron, gracias a ellos 2. Y LOS AMO!

So, hoy espero que las cosas mejores para los 3, después de un montón de tiempo que he sido la "hija del divorcio".

Me alegro por las cosas buenas que le pasan a los dos, pero ahora me gustaría que otra vez nos pasen un montón de cosas buenas a los 3!

Se animan?

* De paso le rendimos homenaje a Lennon.

I´m in the mood for love

I'm in the mood for love

simply because you're near me

Funny but when you're near me,

I'm in the mood for love.

Heaven is in your eyes,

bright as the stars we're under,

Or is it any wonder,

I'm in the mood for love.

Why stop to think of whether

this little dream might fade,

We'll put our hearts together -

now we are one, I'm not afraid.

If there's a cloud above,

if it should rain, we'll let it.

But for tonight forget it,

I'm in the mood for love.